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• What Causes Cold Sores? 1 Feb 2007 • Cold Sore Treatment - Lemon Balm Ice 1 Feb 2007 • Cold Sore Cures - Fact or Hype? 4 Jan 2008 • Foods To Avoid With Cold Sores and Fever Blisters 24 Jan 2008 • Cold Sore Lysine - Quenching the Fire of Your Cold Sores 19 Feb 2008 • Cold Sores - A Pandemic? 1 Feb 2007 • Getting Rid of Cold Sores This Quick and Easy Way 10 Jun 2007 • Treating a Cold Sore For Great Success 24 Jan 2008 • Cold Sore Stages - A Guide for the Curious 16 Aug 2007 • Cold Sores and Fever Blisters - Are You Dangerously Contagious? 17 Jun 2007 • Cold Sore Cures - Is There A Cure For Your Cold Sores? 3 Aug 2008 • Lysine for Cold Sores - Will It Help Your Cold Sore? 31 Aug 2008 • Cold Sores - Powerful First Aid For Your Oral Herpes Cold Sore 30 Jun 2008 • Facts About Cold Sores 1 Jun 2007 • Heal Cold Sores - The Truth About How to Heal a Cold Sore 2 May 2008 • What Are Some Foods That Prevent Cold Sores? 4 Aug 2007 • What Causes Cold Sores - Avoid Your Next Cold Sore 14 Jun 2008 • How to Heal a Cold Sore Fast 4 Aug 2007 • Proven 3-Step Cold Sore Treatment Plan 10 Jun 2007 • How To Get Rid of Cold Sores - Treating a Cold Sore Safely 3 Aug 2008 • Cold Sore Relief For The Worst Cold Sores 21 May 2008 • Cold Sore Home Remedies - Proven Healing of Cold Sores 2 Apr 2008 • You Can Get Rid of a Cold Sore With These Powerful Tactics 7 Oct 2007 • Cold Sore Symptoms - What You Must Watch For With Cold Sores 31 Aug 2008 • Tell Me What Causes Cold Sores 3 Jun 2007 • Cold Sore Treatments: Do Not Get Ripped Off 17 Jun 2007 • Incredible Immunity to Reoccurring Cold Sores 30 Sep 2007 • What Are Cold Sores and How Do I Recognize Them ? 5 Sep 2007

Searching for foods that prevent cold sores? You are wise indeed. Nutrition is the most effective and natural way to eliminate cold sore outbreaks.

In this article you will learn about delicious foods that prevent cold sores. You will also discover foods that cause cold sores. Best of all, in about 2 minutes, you will know how best to balance the two for your personal needs. Check it out.

Cold sores are the visible result of the herpes virus replication process. The virus enters a cell on the surface of your face and forces that cell to create copies of itself. Then the original virus destroys the cell to release hoards of new virus. The open cold sore is the result of millions of cells in close proximity that have been destroyed like this.

Lysine and arginine are two amino acids much talked about in their relation to cold sores. Amino acids are small fractions of protein that your body needs everyday to stay in tiptop shape. To create new cold sore virus, the cell needs certain materials. One necessary building block for herpes virus replication is arginine.

Lysine has been proven very effective in treating and preventing cold sores. Lysine prevents cold sores mainly by replacing some of the arginine in your cells. If you have a higher lysine than arginine content in the cells, you are less likely to get cold sores.

Foods that prevent cold sores are rated by how high the ratio of lysine to arginine content. Most foods contain both lysine and arginine. If there is the same amount of both, the ratio is 1 to 1. If there is twice as much lysine as arginine, then the ratio is 2 to 1. This is an excellent ratio for preventing cold sores.

So the strategy here is to increase the ratio of lysine over arginine in your diet. For example: cheddar cheese, in one ounce or 28 grams, contains 588 milligrams of lysine and 267 milligrams of arginine. This is a ratio of lysine to arginine of 2.2 to 1. Excellent.

Here is a list of foods that prevent cold sores. Most meat, particularly beef, fish, turkey and chicken. Products such as eggs, cheese, yogurt, milk and other dairy products are also quite high in lysine and often offer a 2 to 1 ratio. Ricotta cheese is unusually high in lysine. Soy beans, soy products and brewers yeast will also provide you higher lysine intake.

SPECIAL NOTE. Flounder is very rich in lysine. Some people use flounder as a total cold sore treatment. When getting a cold sore, they will eat one pound, or 300 grams, of flounder. This provides 12 grams of lysine. Lysine from food is 200% to 400% more usable by the body than the lysine in supplements. You would have to take 50 lysine capsules, at least, to equal the flounder, which would be crazy. Your body knows the difference.

Here is a short list of foods that cause cold sores. These foods have high content of arginine to lysine. Most nuts, including peanuts, almonds, cashews and walnuts. Grains, such as wheat and oats. Seeds, such as sunflower and sesame, are arginine providers. Also avoid most beans, peas and lima beans. Most vegetables are higher in arginine than lysine, such as carrots, radishes, eggplant, and cabbage. Chocolate is high in arginine.

STOP. Before you give up right here, let me say two things in closing.

Do not hesitate to take lysine capsules just because this form of lysine is not as well absorbed. Many people control outbreaks with the capsules alone. And do not let a special cold sore diet rule your life. You will find relief from cold sores and still enjoy life by testing and finding the balance and combinations that best suit your lifestyle. By taking lysine supplements, you can eat more of the high arginine foods, like chocolate.

It is all about balance. Yes, you can eat all foods you enjoy, as long as you combine them wisely with supplements and sufficient foods that prevent cold sores.

Author: Denny Bodoh

Denny Bodoh is a 35 year newspaper veteran and health research writer.

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